The new iPhone 16 will deliver improved gaming experiences, Apple says, with 30 percent higher sustained performance than last year’s model. You’ll also be able to play more games in general, including additional AAA titles, on your new phone. AAA video games are big releases from top publishers, often with bigger budgets and cutting-edge graphics technology. If you plan on doing more gaming on your iPhone, you can look forward to everything from poker-style titles like Balatro to controller-enabled adventures, all made better on the latest and greatest iPhone (one of our favorites is the Backbone).
During Apple’s “Glowtime” event on Monday, the tech company said its new A18 chip, thermal enhancements and improvements to the iPhone 16’s GPU will enable better hardware-accelerated ray tracing and faster performance. Games like War Thunder Mobile will be able to create more realistic lighting effects, such as sunlight on the ocean, and higher frame rates than software acceleration, the company demonstrated in a video.
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The new hardware also means that games like Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, which were only available on iPhone Pro models, are now playable on the new base model of the iPhone.
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Apple also showed a version of Honor of Kings: Worlda new edition of the popular Chinese MOBA from Tencent, which will be available for the iPhone 16 next year. It will have an ultra graphics mode that is optimized for the iPhone 16.
The new Apple phones can be pre-ordered from September 13 and will be available in stores from September 20.
